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Taylor Lindsey promoted to Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Nashville
Taylor Lindsey has been promoted to Chairman and CEO at Sony Music Nashville, effective January 2025.Lindsey succeeds Randy Goodman, who,...
Suno, after being sued by the majors for copyright infringement, preps launch of V4, claimed to mark ‘a new era of AI music generation’
Suno – one of the two music-generating AI companies sued by the major record companies for using copyrighted music without...
Saudi wealth fund exits Live Nation stake, after making $930M in profit
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has completely divested its position in Live Nation Entertainment, capping off a highly profitable...
Live Nation’s job is to ‘take the punch for the artist’… and 3 other things we learned from Michael Rapino during the company’s investor presentation
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events...
Jedd Katrancha named Chief Creative Officer at Downtown Music Publishing
Downtown Music Publishing (DMP) has appointed Jedd Katrancha as Chief Creative Officer.Katrancha will spearhead the division’s creative strategy, overseeing A&R,...
Nas’s Mass Appeal expands into Pakistan, partners with two of the country’s biggest artists, Talha Anjum and Umair
Mass Appeal Records is expanding.The global hip hop label co-founded by Grammy Award-winning artist Nas, has launched in Pakistan.In a...
Shintaro Aki appointed Managing Director of EMI Records Japan
Universal Music Japan (UMJ) has appointed widely respected industry and A&R executive Shintaro Aki as Managing Director, EMI Records Japan,...
Jin of BTS is the latest artist to launch an interactive hub on TikTok to promote new solo album, ‘Happy’
TikTok has partnered with K-Pop superstar Jin on a new multimedia campaign in support of his first solo album, Happy,...
Daniel Ek just cashed out $35.8 million in Spotify shares. But that’s nothing compared to his co-founder… who just cashed out $383.8 million.
Spotify‘s share price is flying.Following the firm’s announcement of its Q3 2024 results on Tuesday (November 12), SPOT’s stock price...
From GEMA’s copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to Hipgnosis’ $1.47bn ABS deal… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines...
